Meat with Prunes

For meat with prunes you can use either pork or beef. I think, pork tastes even better prepared this way, especially if prunes you have are not too sweet, so I advise you to go with pork.

However if you don’t like pork for some reasons or if you don’t have it just like I did when I were writing this article, you can use beef. I must say it tastes also delicious!

Ingredients:

2.5 – 3 lb of beef or pork (shoulder part or better)

10 oz of dried prunes

1 onion

3-4 carrots

1 tomato (can be skipped)

4-6 bay leaves

Oil (I use sunflower one)

Salt

How to prepare, step-by-step:

Prepare ingredients: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 1

Wash meat with cold water and dice it into middle pieces: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 2

Heat the frying pan with oil up over high-moderate heat. Fry the meat over from each side (approx. 10 mins): Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 3

Place meat (and meat juices formed while meat was frying) to the deep cooking pot, season it with salt, add bay leaves. Put the pot on a burner on low heat, cover it with a lid and let meat cook for 15-20 mins: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 4

Skin onion, cut it into half-circles. Heat the frying pan with oil up on moderate heat and fry onion over till it gains yellow color: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 5

While meat and onion are being cooked, skin carrots and crate them on big slots. Add carrots to the same frying pan where onions are (you can also add 1 fine chopped tomato at this step if you like). Season vegetables with salt and fry them over low-medium heat stirring from time to time (approx. 10-15 mins): Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 6

Wash prunes, if they are very dry you can soak them with boiling water for 10-15 mins. Cut each prune in half or quarter (if they are big) and add them to the pot with meat: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 7

Pour vegetables from frying pan over meat with prunes, cover with a lid and continue cooking over low heat: Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 8

Cook meat till it is ready, depends of the meat part it can take from 20 to 40 mins. When you can easily pierce meat with a fork easily it is ready to be served. Backed potato or Mashed Potato are good side choices for Meat with Prunes: Meat with Prunes